Seagate barracuda

[peanut]

Hello, I have a seagate barracuda 7200.7 SATA 160gb hard drive. My computer knows its 160 gig but it only shows 37. could anyone please help me figure out why and how to correct this? Thank You.

[fo3nix]

How is it formatted?

Try reformatting as NTFS.

[peanut]

Thank you,

I looked in disk management and saw that it was partitioned and the second partition was not formatted at all. It is all there now. The drive was given to me yesterday so I had no idea what was done with it previously.

[Buenchico]

Is there a typo in your question? A 137Gb limitation is a well-known problem (but I've not heard of a 37Gb one). In case you meant to type 137Gb, here's the answer from Seagate:
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=e n-US&name=SATA_Troubleshooter_-_137_GB_Capacit y_Issues&vgnextoid=d8344a3cdde5c010VgnVCM10000 0dd04090aRCRD

Remember that, even when everything is working properly, the reported size of any drive is always less than the size on the box. This is due to differences between the decimal and binary definitions of 'Giga'. So you'll never get the reported figure up to 160Gb:
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=e n-US&name=Storage_Capacity_Measurement_Standar ds_-_Seagate_Technology&vgnextoid=9493781e73d5 d010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

If you don't get a satisfactory answer here on AB, use the link below to contact Seagate support. (You'll have to copy the link, and paste it into your browser's address bar because AB doesn't hotlink to secure web pages):
https://seagate.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/seagate.cfg/php/enduser/stx_ask.php

Chris

[peanut]

Nope, no typo. I truly meant 37 Gb. I know about the 137 Gb barrier. It's just that it was partitioned and the second partition was not formatted. Thank you both for your responses.